CAT/C/71/D/843/2017
United Nations
Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman
or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment
Distr.: General
30 September 2021
English
Original: French
Committee against Torture
Decision adopted by the Committee under article 22 of the
Convention, concerning communication No. 843/2017*, **
Communication submitted by:
O.N. (represented by counsel, TRIAL
International)
Alleged victim:
The complainant
State party:
Burundi
Date of complaint:
18 July 2017 (initial submission)
Document references:
Decision taken pursuant to rules 114 and 115 of
the Committee’s rules of procedure, transmitted
to the State party on 20 September 2017 (not
issued as a public document)
Date of decision:
22 July 2021
Subject matter:
Torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment; lack of effective
investigation and redress
Procedural issues:
Exhaustion of domestic remedies
Substantive issues:
Torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment; measures to prevent
acts of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment; systematic monitoring
of custody and treatment of prisoners; State
party’s obligation to ensure that its competent
authorities proceed to a prompt and impartial
investigation; right to file a complaint; right to
redress
Articles of the Convention:
Articles 2 (1), 11, 12, 13 and 14, read in
conjunction with articles 1 and 16, and article 16
* Adopted by the Committee at its seventy-first session (12–30 July 2018).
** The following members of the Committee participated in the examination of the communication:
Essadia Belmir, Claude Heller, Erdoğan İşcan, Liu Huawen, Ilvija Pūce, Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón,
Sébastien Touzé, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov and Peter Vedel Kessing.
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